The Azusa Pacific Blog » Hebrew http://www.apu.edu/blog Thoughts, ideas, and information from APU students, faculty, and staff Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:27:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 God’s got this… http://www.apu.edu/blog/2009/10/16/gods-got-this/ http://www.apu.edu/blog/2009/10/16/gods-got-this/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:01:40 +0000 Ellie Kipps http://www.apu.edu/blog/?p=300 Many of the other bloggers have been talking about just how busy they are, and I 100% agree. As someone who love being academically challenged, I thrive in the demanding pace of my honors classes and my upper divisions. However… there is definitely a point reached (that probably has something to do with learning an extremely difficult language, not sleeping, and drowning in theology along with other life stuff) that you just want to say: I give up, Enough is enough.

I reached this point earlier this week but a blessed blessed thing occured: Study Day, which is a essentially a day off from classes to… well.. study. A lot of students used their ‘Study’ day to pontificate upon and studiously participate in the magical world of Disney (haha…) and some use it for… SHOCKER: Studying. I however used my study day as a much needed sabbath, a time to breathe and reflect and realize that I’m not surrendering the stress of school over to the God who holds All things in His hand. Right now, I’ve been personally going through Foster’s Celebration of Discipline and the coupled book of Spiritual Classics as well as daily devos with Buechner (my favorite theologian), so I spent time in those as well on Study Day. I say all this not in a spirit of flaunting or anything, but more as a reminder that despite the business of life there is first and foremost the priority to God and the priority of honoring Him with rejoicing in the day He has given. And sometimes that means taking a day off (weekends or study day), or if you really can’t manage a whole day, then at least a few hours of intentionally relishing in His goodness and His Word and surrendering over stress.

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]]> http://www.apu.edu/blog/2009/10/16/gods-got-this/feed/ 0 YHWH YIREH. http://www.apu.edu/blog/2009/09/15/yhwh-yireh/ http://www.apu.edu/blog/2009/09/15/yhwh-yireh/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:13:12 +0000 Ellie Kipps http://www.apu.edu/blog/?p=147 This year I’m studying the very different, decently difficult language of Ancient and Modern Hebrew with one of my favorite professors, Dr. Smoak. I took Dr. Smoak last year for  Exodus/Deuteronomy Honors (he teaches honors and non-honors sections… so take him either way! I got my roommate into his class and she loves it! The man is brilliant, talented, and hilarious!… okay, back to blogging)… and I learned so much from his class that I just couldn’t imagine not taking him again, so when I heard he was getting the chance to teach Hebrew at APU, which he has taught for years at UCLA, I jumped at the chance… honestly, not really knowing what I was getting into.

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